Diaper wringer



0d. 1957 F. R. zum BRUNNEN 2808716 DIAPER WRINGER Filed Jan. 27, 1955 IN V EN TOR.

DIAPER WRINGER Frederick R. Zinn Brunnen, Monroe, Wis.

Application January 27, 1955, Serial N0. 484,481

4 Claims. (C1. 68-273) The invention relates to wringers and more particularly to a diaper wringer.

In the washing of soiled diapers it is cornrnon practice to use the toilet bowl as a wash basin, and after rernoving the soil, lift the cleaned diapers out of the bowl for rinsing. In removing a cleaned diaper from the bowl for rinsing there is always the chance of spattering water over the toilet floor, and this is objectionable. The main object of the invention is to provide a diaper wringer adapted to be mounted on the rim of a toilet bowl so that it may be raised up to an operating position above the bowl to permit the wringing of a diaper as it is taken out of the bowl and adapted, when not in use, to swing or fold down along inside of the rim of the bowl in a position where it will not interfere with the normal use of the toilet.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel form of wringer mechanism in which the wringer rolls are mounted on yieldable supporting arms which as they are spread apart by the diaper being pulled through the rolls will exert a Wringing pressure 011 said rolls.

A further object of the invention is to provide a diaper wringer having cooperating wringer rolls With a supporting frarne for said rolls, open at the top, so that the diaper may be introduced between the rolls frorn the top and drawn through the rolls Witl'i one band by a two finger grip on the diaper, the rolls preferably being conically tapered at tneir top to facilitate the wringing operation.

The invention further consists in the several features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation view of a wringer ernhodying the invention showing it in operative position on a toilet bowl;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device, parts being broken away and parts being shown in section;

Fig. 3 is a detailed vertical sectional view through the device, the section for the most part being taken through the central portion cf the hanger substantially on the line 33 of Fig. 2, parts being broken away;

Fig. 4 is a detailed vertical sectional view of a portion of the wringer base mounting with parts ornitted and 100king along the arrows 44 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view looking along the arrows 55 of Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is a front elevation view of a modified forrn of wringer, parts being broken away and parts being shown in section.

The preferred forrn of wringer is shown in Figs. 1 to 5 and includes a Wringing device W and a hanger 0r support H for mounting the device on the rim R of a toilet bowl.

The Wringing device W includes a frame having a base portion 7 provided with a depending foot er lug 8 which extends at an acute angle relative to the base 7. Arms 9 extend upwardly frorn opposite ends of the base portion Eee 7 and then inwardly to form upper arms 10 that are spaced apart to form an opening 11 therebetween. Thus the frarne provides a pair of oppositely disposed U-shaped portions and a wringer roll 12 is mounted to rotate in each of these portions by means of pins 13 mounted in the ends of each roll. One of the pins 13 f0r each roll is inserted in a hole 14 in the base portion 7 and the other pin is rnounted in a hole 15 in the associated arm 10. The frarne is preferablyformed of a yieldable or resilient plastic such as Plexiglas so that the rolls 12 may be Sprung into place and so that when the material to be W1'ung is drawn through the rolls tending to spread them apart, a yielding pressure Will be exerted on the rolls by the frarne. The frame could be formed of suitably fabricated stainless strip steel, if desired.

The hanger or attaching bracket H is a ohannel memher having a web or top 16, a frontend flange 17, and a rear end flange 18. The front end flange 17 has an inturned bottom flange 19 provided with spaced threaded holes to receive clamping screws 20. The rear end flange 18 has a V-shaped lower end tongue portion 21 that at its upper end 22 inclines inwardly from the upper part of said flange. The bracket H is adapted 1:0 be hooked over the rim R of the toilet bowl With the flange 17 engag1ng under the rim portion inside the bowl, the screws 20 permitting a clamping engagement of the bracket with diflerent size rirns and the rear side 18 with its tongue portion, adapted to be snapped over the larger portion of the rim, and permitting the engaging of the outer side of bowl rirns of different sizes. T he bracket is preferably formed of a yieldable resilient plastic such as cast acrylic resin (methyl methacrylate) thermoplastic sheet material er may be forrned of stainless strip steel.

The wringing device has its base Ing 8 pivotally mounted on a pin 23 anchored in the bracket H and extending through a hole 24 in said lug 8. The lug 8 is preferably yieldingly pressed against the end flange 17 by a spring 25 interposed between it and a nut 26 on the end of said pin. For retaining the device in one of its two positions a pin 27 is inset in the Ing, er if of metal, a portion of the metal is burnped out to provide a projection. The projection or the head of the pin 27 is adapted to engage in one er the other of locking recesses 28 in the end flange 17 to hold the wringer either in its upper operative position or in its imperative position down along sicle the inner side of the rim of the bowl as indicated in broken lines in Fig. 1.

T he upper ends 29 of the rolls 12 are preferably tapered -inwardly frorn the main diameter of the rolls so a diaper,

indicated in broken lines in Fig. 2, may be inserted through the opening 11 and between the tapered portions of the rolls and then drawn downwardly and forwardly to Wring the water therefrom. In this connection the operator may rernove the washed diaper from the bowl by gripping one end of the sarne with the thurnb and index finger of one band and raise the diaper to the wringer, and with these fingers start and pull the diaper through the yieldingly mounted wringer rolls to remove the water therefrom. After the wringing operation, the wringing device is swung down to its inoperative position, the acute angle forrned between the wringer base 7 and lug 3 being such that the wringer device will then be disposed close to one side of the inner rim portion of the bowl.

Instead of using the arms of the roll supporting frarne as a source of yieldable pressure in Fig. 6, I show the pivot pins 30for the rolls 31 as engaged at one side by blocks 32 mounted in slots 33 in the relatively rigid frame 34 and yieldably urged against the pins by springs 35 backed by adjustable screws 36, the frame 34 having a lug 37 sirnilar to the lug 8 for attachment to a bange: bracket of the form shown in Fig. 2 

